Mini Project 2

Introduction

For STA 9750 Mini Project 2, I’m going to propose remaking a classic movie: Independence Day.

Pitch

Originally released in 1996 and starring Will Smith, this film depicts Earth’s fight for freedom from an alien invasion.

Starring Jacob Batalon in his breakout role as Captain Steven Hiller and famous robo-freedom-fighter John DiMaggio as David Levinson, this film follows an ensemble of characters as they look to save Earth from the new threat from the aliens of Omicron Persei 10.

Jacob Batalon
Jacob Batalon
John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio

Directed by Glass Onion and Knives Out director Rian Johnson, the action behind this film belies the mystery of the Omicronians and their true plot.

Rian Johnson
linked from GIPHY

How we got here

Now that I’ve thoroughly grabbed your attention, how the heck did we come up with this cast of characters?

After sorting through IMDb data, these three just truly spoke to us and we knew we were on to something.

Task 1: In which the data is gathered

Since we’re doing this in R, let’s get some code going

# Install and import packages
if(!require("ggplot2")) install.packages("ggplot2")
if(!require("tidyverse")) install.packages("tidyverse")
if(!require("dplyr")) install.packages("dplyr")
if(!require("glue")) install.packages("glue")
if(!require("scales")) install.packages("scales")
if(!require("psych")) install.packages("psych")
if(!require("plotly")) install.packages("plotly")

library(ggplot2)
library(tidyverse)
library(dplyr)
library(glue)
library(scales)
library(psych)
library(plotly)